Review of the Model M-Inspired Unicomp Customizer Keyboard
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITThousandStars writes “I wrote a review of the Unicomp Customizer Keyboard, which is a modern version of the IBM and then Lexmark Model M much beloved by nerds and hackers. The pros of the Customizer: it’s sturdy, remarkably similar to the Model M, has great tech support, and uses a USB interface. Oh, and it’s Mac-friendly. The cons: at $69 it’s somewhat expensive, and its noise won’t be music to your cubemate’s ears.” Note: this is one of the very, very few buckling-spring keyboards you can get new these days, instead of prowling through thrift stores, eBay, and university dumpsters.
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Affaires à Suivre Chez Zend
Suite à quelques mouvements de personnel dans la R&D de Zend, John Coggeshall donne son point de vue sur ce qui pourrait se passer au sein de l'entreprise Le site TechCrunch a publié il y a un peu plus d'une semaine un article évoquant une réduction de la masse salariale parmis l'équipe de R&D chez Zend.
Firefox Goes For World Download Record
Kelson writes "For the upcoming release of Firefox, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it's launched.
Bluepay
Package: Bluepay Summary: Process credit card payments using BluePay gateway Groups: E-Commerce, PHP 5, Web services Author: Chris Kois Description: This class can be used to process credit card paymemts and ACH transactions using BluePay gateway. It takes a list of transaction parameters and submits a request to BluePay API Web server.
CEP Web Service
Package: CEP Web Service Summary: Determine the address of a Brazilian zip code Groups: Geography, PHP 5, Web services Author: Deni Santos Description: This class can be used to determine the address associated to a given Brazilian zip code (CEP). It accesses a remote Web service that can retrieve the street address and neighbourhood associated to a given CEP zip code.
Curl Outperforms Adobe Flex?
Curl announced the results from a recent performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3. The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and found the Curl language to outperform ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10.
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VIA Introduces The Nano Processor
The Nano marks VIA's first 64-bit, superscalar, speculative out-of-order CPU design and is being built on Fujitsu's 65nm process technology. While direct performance comparisons are still missing, the products being released could bring Intel's Atom platform to its knees: clock speeds as high as 1.8 GHz or as low as 1.0 GHz with a maximum power draw of only 5 watts!
Wipro Opens Solutions Lab For SAP
Wipro announced an agreement with SAP, through which it established a closer collaboration and an increased focus on customer adoption of SAP solutions. Under this agreement, Wipro has invested in a state-of-the-art Solutions Lab, through which it is building 'Industry Networks' to help companies leverage industry best practices and templates on SAP's business process platform.
Ulteo Shows Linux-Windows Crossover Potential
An anonymous reader writes "With Wubi and now the Ulteo Virtual Desktop, we're starting to see examples of the potential 'cross-over' appeal of Linux to Windows users. Ulteo gets a nice look from Channelweb, which writes, 'Considering that this is not even a version 1 beta, we have high hopes for Ulteo Virtual Desktop.
What Makes A Programming Language Successful?
What really makes a language popular? What really makes a language 'good'? What is success for a programming language? Can we say COBOL is a successful language? What about Ruby, Python, etc?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
SoftBank Telecom Deploys DataCore Virtualization
DataCore announced today that SoftBank Telecom has deployed DataCore SANmelody as the storage virtualization platform to build, verify and test its disaster recovery process over a wide-area virtual infrastructure. For the deployment and verification test, SoftBank Telecom established a connection between its data centers in Tokyo and Osaka (approximately 500 kilometers apart) via Infiniband, and configured wide-area virtual systems through the virtualization of servers, storage, and I/O.